“To my companions at OpenAI: Now we have seen your petition and admire your want probably to hitch Sam Altman at Microsoft’s new AI Analysis Lab,” Scott stated Tuesday in a put up on X, previously generally known as Twitter. “Know that if wanted, you may have a task at Microsoft that matches your compensation and advances our collective mission.”

It isn’t instantly recognized if the supply is contingent on Altman’s employment at Microsoft. Scott didn’t reply to CNBC’s request for touch upon X. However, the remark provides some readability to what Microsoft is prepared to pay workers and what number of it might rent.

The way forward for OpenAI remains to be unsure and it stays unclear the place Altman will work.

Early Monday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that Altman, Greg Brockman, who resigned as OpenAI’s president, and their colleagues would be a part of Microsoft as a part of a brand new AI analysis group. Greater than 600 OpenAI workers then signed a letter to the corporate’s board and threatened to hitch their former boss at Microsoft except the members resigned.

In his first press interview since Altman’s ouster, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella instructed CNBC on Monday, “At this level, I feel it is very clear that one thing has to vary across the governance” at OpenAI. Nadella didn’t say for sure in the course of the interview that Altman and Brockman had been becoming a member of Microsoft, exhibiting the scenario had modified from statements made earlier within the day.

“We selected to explicitly associate with OpenAI, and we wish to proceed to take action,” Nadella instructed CNBC. “Clearly that will depend on the individuals of OpenAI staying there or coming to Microsoft. So I am open to each choices, however one factor I cannot do is cease innovating.”

OpenAI’s board fired Altman Friday after figuring out he was “not constantly candid in his communications” with them, in accordance with an announcement. After a protracted weekend of negotiations that seemed to probably reinstate Altman on the firm, ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear introduced he had been appointed interim head.

OpenAI’s board is now made up of simply 4 individuals: OpenAI’s chief scientist Ilya Sutskever — who signed the letter threatening to depart — Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner. They haven’t elaborated on the reasoning behind Altman’s ouster. Sutskever expressed deep “remorse” for his participation within the board’s resolution in a put up on X Monday.

–CNBC’s Jordan Novet contributed to this report.